Job Description

Locations

• New York City, New York, United States 10022

Salary

Skills Required

• collaborationintermediate
• diversityintermediate
• designing distributed systemsintermediate
• developing distributed systemsintermediate
• maintaining distributed systemsintermediate
• building high-throughput systemsintermediate
• optimizing low-latency systemsintermediate
• ensuring performanceintermediate
• ensuring reliabilityintermediate
• ensuring scalabilityintermediate
• distributed architecturesintermediate
• technical guidanceintermediate
• mentorshipintermediate
• fostering learningintermediate

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, building and deploying scalable, distributed systems in a production environment (experience, 5 years)
• Strong proficiency in Java, with demonstrated experience applying both Object-Oriented and Functional programming principles (experience)
• Solid understanding of concurrency control mechanisms, fundamental data structures, and efficient algorithm design (experience)
• Hands-on experience with with databases such as Cassandra and Redis, and stream processing platforms like Kafka (experience)
• Proven ability to design and implement systems with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability (experience)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience (experience)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and optimizing real-time data pipelines, including data ingestion, transformation, and delivery (experience)
• Practical experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes and building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines (experience)
• Familiarity with stream processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Flink, Apache Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams) and associated best practices (experience)
• Passion for sports and the sports data ecosystem (experience)
• Self-motivated with strong collaboration and communication skills (experience)
• Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment (experience)

Responsibilities

• Join our Sports Backend Infrastructure team and build the engine that powers real-time sports experiences for millions of fans! As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the highly available, real-time data services that ingest, process, and distribute sports data at massive scale. Your work will focus on building and optimizing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, ensuring exceptional performance, reliability, and scalability. You’ll leverage industry-standard best practices for distributed architectures and collaborate with world-class engineers to deliver impactful features and execute on our technical roadmap. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

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